Except for the price, everything in Dead Link: Pages Torn can be categorized as “average” and even that is in most cases an overstatement. For $8 you get a (barely) 2h game with a rather lame and cliche story, poorly explained puzzles, buggy achievements and few other elements that clearly don’t belong in a HOG.
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Introduction
This shall be my fourth Steam review for a Hidden Object Game and I really was in the mood for a decent brain teaser. Dead Link: Pages Torn did not disappoint in this regard, even if it’s a bit on the short side. The game’s been developed and published by Steam veterans, phime studio LLC. They’ve released a few platformers over the years...
I recommend this game.
But, it's complicated, of course. I'm a Hidden Object Game (HOG) junkie, so I've played just about all I can lay my hands on. This game is published and developed by phime studio, LLC, which makes it a maverick and challenger to the dominant publisher in the field. I'm so grateful to have those, so I'm biases from the start.
The...
I can't really recommend this game. There are several flaws:
- The animations are not very good (although, to be honest, most of the HO-games have animations that look rather bad, imho).
- The puzzles are laughably easy and pose no challenge at all. This isn't handholding players, it's pointing them almost directly to the solution.
- A few times the...
Dead Link: Pages Torn is a fair casual HO Game.
It has a decent storyline, set in the detective field (a young writer investigates her sister's vanishing). The plot is realistic (no zombies, no monsters, no vampires.. no fantastic or magical creatures) and the characters are plausible.
Graphics and soundtrack are ok. Voice acting too.
By the end the...
